Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Bina Sharif and Kevin Mitchell Martin vividly portray two Manhattan tramps in Sharif’s latest existential two-character one-act play.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 08:28PMSunday, January 7, 2024
“The Glass Menagerie” gets an affectionately loopy performance piece-style reworking by an engaging cast in an energetic Almodóvarean presentation.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:00PMSaturday, January 6, 2024
Two young male and female singer-songwriters meet in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields in this engaging and bittersweet musical; life’s harshness intrudes.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 09:42AMMonday, December 11, 2023
Two deceased Black female playwright’s works, personal Off-Off-Broadway shows, and two Broadway revivals were highlights of the New York stage this year.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 08:12AMFriday, December 8, 2023
Matt de Rogatis is awesome as a disaffected Texas Vietnam veteran in this expanded adaptation of deceased Southern author James McLure’s one-act play.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:58PMWednesday, November 15, 2023
Wade McCollum is phenomenal as a now obscure mid-20th century gay male performer and writer in this exhilarating biographical solo show with music.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 04:10PMDianne Wiest is magnificent as a 75-year-old Wisconsin widow who moves to LA to make it show business in this zany odyssey that is given an epic production.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 04:05PMThursday, November 9, 2023
Sean Young is triumphant as a washed-up B actress in this uproarious yet poignant exploration of old Hollywood’s underside; four sad tales are enacted.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMThursday, November 2, 2023
John Turturro is titanic in this euphoric stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel about a mentally unraveling 64-year-old licentious puppeteer.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 09:18PMW. Somerset Maugham’s scintillating 1926 social comedy is given a fizzy revival by a NYC-based theater company devoted to artists over the age of 50.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 12:03PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
David Dean Bottrell’s self-written solo show is an entertaining personal exploration about death comprised of well-crafted short, intertwined episodes.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 11:30AMSaturday, October 28, 2023
European Jewish collaboration with the Germans during the Holocaust is dramatized in this searing immersive presentation which is set in a bustling café.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:10PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
French sculptor Camille Claudel’s tumultuous life and tempestuous relationship with Auguste Rodin are dramatized in this absorbing theatrical depiction.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:28AMMonday, October 16, 2023
Patrick Page enraptures with one towering Shakespearean characterization after another in his enthralling and erudite self-created theatrical solo show.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMSaturday, October 14, 2023
This heartfelt and dynamically enacted solo performance piece explores a trans person’s pre-transition existence through comedic and dramatic sequences.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 09:00AMSunday, October 8, 2023
Charlotte Booker is dazzling as the complex “The Bride of Frankenstein” English actress in her imaginative self-written solo biographical fantasia
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:00PMMonday, October 2, 2023
A Lana Turner-style murdered mobster boyfriend, a framed daughter and reptilian religious cultists feature in this high-energy campy musical spoof.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 01:20PMFriday, September 29, 2023
Three brilliant actors portray multiple characters in this entrancing stripped-down faithful theatricalization of Dostoevsky’s classic 1866 novel.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 01:05PMMonday, September 25, 2023
James Daly is the ideal Count in this comically sexy spoof of the familiar tale; it is laden with homoeroticism, gender-bending and jokey anachronisms.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:26PMSunday, September 24, 2023
Three magnetic fabulously clad comic actors enact this imaginative fantasia based on the 7th century tale of the Irish St. Dymphna's martyrdom.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:56PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
Veteran actor David Dean Bottrell hilariously and insightfully chronicles his life journey from Kentucky to NYC and LA, in his entertaining solo show.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:38PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Screen actor Lin Shaye appealingly performs her autobiographical self-written solo play dealing with love and loss in 1960’s dreamy and druggy California.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMThis spirted small-scale revival of the affectionate and faithful spoof of Anton Chekov’s “The Seagull” is wonderfully performed and inventively presented.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:00AMSunday, September 17, 2023
Four tremendous Chicago actors perform in this impeccably written contemporary American drama set on a Wisconsin prairie; it is entrancingly presented.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMFriday, September 15, 2023
An absorbing performance art piece featuring surrealistic vignettes, a variety of curtains and pseudoscience; it is vividly presented and performed.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:00PMThursday, September 7, 2023
Charismatic New Zealand-born performer Catherine Waller is bewitching in her highly theatrical solo show which is comprised of dark vignettes.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 04:15PMSunday, August 27, 2023
Masha King is towering as a young Jewish woman in Poland who survives internment at three concentration camps in this powerful Holocaust dramatization.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:52PMSunday, August 20, 2023
A youthful, animated and entrancing ensemble portray the six members of a NYC college improv comedy troupe in this affective and bittersweet major play.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:07AMFriday, July 14, 2023
A gay male cabaret performer poses as his deceased landlady to escape Nazi persecution in this powerful musical solo show that is grandly performed.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 04:15PMFriday, June 30, 2023
"The Emperor's New Clothes" inspires this satirical musical set in a mythical nation ruled by an authoritarian president; it’s performed by a peppy cast.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 11:02PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Joe Pantoliano is irrepressible in this biographical musical starring Constantine Maroulis as legendary DJ Alan Freed; Little Richard is prominent.
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